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Queen cells into laying worker colony

If you put queen cells into a laying worker colony, what will happen? The laying worker tries to swarm with some of the bees? The laying worker will kill the cells? The laying worker will get superseded?

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Re: Queen cells into laying worker colony

I've never tried it, but if I did, I'd put it in with a frame of open larva. I think I'd put in a frame of open larva for 3 days and then insert the queen cell ready to emerge. As to your questions and forecasts... I think they would not swarm, but would either accept the virgin or kill her.

Re: Queen cells into laying worker colony

Re: Queen cells into laying worker colony

As a queen breeder, I encounter laying worker mating nucs all the time. If the nuc rejects the cell I give them twice in a row, without winding up with a laying queen, they'll have laying workers. My solution is to re-cell them. More often than not, the cell will be accepted and the nuc will be queen-right 16 days later.